Watering device.



'No. 781,645. PATENTED FEB. 7, 1905.

J. P. FINEGAN.

WATERING DEVICE.

APPLIOATION FILED JULY 2,1904.

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WATERING DEVICE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 781,645, dated February 7, 1905.

Application filed July 2,1904. Serial No. 215,047.

will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention has for its object to provide an improved watering-trough for chickens and other towls; and to this end it consists of the novel devices and combinations of devices hereinafter described, and defined in the claims.

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein like characters indicate like parts throughout the several views.

Figure l is a view in side elevation, showing the improved watering-trough. Fig. 2 is an end elevation of the trough, and Fig. 3 is a vertical section on the line whr ot' Fig. 2.

The body of the device is afforded by a cylindrical drum 1, which is horizontally disposed and at one end is provided with a projectingcylindricalflangeQ. Extendingtransversely ot' the drum,at the lower portion thereof and at the outer edge of its projecting flange 2. is a segmental web or plate 3, the upper edge of which is horizontal. The head 1" of the drum 1 is cut away at 4 to ati'ord a water-outlet passage of approximately the form of the web 3, but the upper edge of which stands in a considerably lower plane. This opening 4: may, however, take various forms. The web 3 cooperates with the lower portion of the tlange 2 and drum-head 1 to form a trough out of which the fowls may drink. The drum 1 is supported in its horizontal position by means of legs 6, directly and rigidly secured to metallic hoops 7, which hoops are clamped around said drum by means of short nutted bolts 8, passed through perforated outturned ends 9 thereof. This manner of applying the legs to the drum permits 1 the legs to be adjusted toil-regularities in the ground and permits the upper edge of the trough 5 to be set in a horizontal position even when the legs are rested upon a side hill or upon an inclined support. l urthermore, the legs are made readily detachable tor the purpose of shipment.

The trough 5 is covered by a skeleton guard plate or grating 10, which is hinged at its upper edge, as shown at ll, to the outer central portion of the head 1. This grating normally stands in a down wardly-inclined position, with its free edge resting on the upper edge of the web 3; but it is adapted to be turned upward into the position indicated by dotted lines in Fig. 3, so as to atl'ord unobstructed access to the trough 5 for the purpose of cleaning it. It will be noted that the ends of the grating 10 are segmental, so that it is adapted to lit within the cylindrical flange 9 in both positions. The openings in the grating 10 are of such size that large chickens or other towls may pass their heads thercthrough into the water contained within the trough, but are not large enough to permit very small or young chickens to tail through the grating and into the trough. This watering-trough is especially intended for use where a large trough is desired and in which, on account of the size of the trough, small chickens would be very liable to get drowned were not a suitable protcetor or guarding device provided. The protector or guard described, while ei'licient for the purposes had in view, is of very small cost and may be quickly turned out of the way to give unobstructed access to the trough.

To fill the reservoir or body of the tank with water, it is necessary to turn the same into a vertical position, with its flanged end 2 upward, and it may then be tilled by pouring water into the basin-like receptacle atl'orded by the said flange 2. \Vhen the tank is lilled and turned down into a horizontal position, the water will run through the openingi into the trough 5 and nearly, but notquite, lillthe same; but atmospheric pressure will of course prevent the water from overllowing the trough 5. When, however, the water in the trough 5 is lowered approximately down to the upper portion of the passage l, air will be permitted to enter the tank and water will flow again into the trough 5. As soon as the water in the trough 5 rises slightly above the upper extremity of the passage 4 it again cuts off the flow of air into the tank and stops the flow of water therefrom into the said trough. in this way the water in the trough is automatically maintained at substantially a constant height.

The device described is extremely simple and of small cost and in actual practice has been found efiicient for the purposes had in view.

l/Vhat I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is as follows:

1. The combination with the tank 1 having the flange 2 and the head 1 formed at its lower portion with the water-passage 4:, of the web 3 secured to said flange 2, and cooperating therewith, and with said head 1, to form a trough, and the guard-grating 1O hinged to said head l at 11 on a line horizontally intersecting the axis of the tank and having its ends to conform to the projecting flange 2, and normally resting in an inclined position, with its lower edge engaging the upper edgeof said web 3, substantially as described.

2. The combination with a cylindrical tank 1, formed at one end with a trough 5 receiving water therefrom, of the hoops 7 having the legs 6 directly secured thereto and being broken at one point so as to have ends, said hoops being clamped around said drum by bolts applied to the ends thereof, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses. 1

JOHN P. FINEGAN.

\Vitnesses:

R. G. MABEY, F. D. MERCHANT. 

